Article Databases

African American History & Culture
Browse information “drawn from many of Facts On File's print titles, and explore all aspects of the African-American experience. Combining a powerful search engine with high-quality and reliable content, this comprehensive database features informative and extensively hyperlinked entries, including photographs and maps, timelines, primary sources, and biographies.” Available through Facts on File.

American History Online
Utilize this source for research on U.S. history. Its coverage “spans more than 500 years of political, military, social, and cultural history, thousands of biographies, subject entries, chronology entries, primary source documents, maps, and images to cover the entire spectrum of the American experience.”  Available through Facts on File.

American Indian History Online
Obtain information on “more than 5,000 years of culture, history, and biographies. This database presents more than 500 Native American groups through primary source documents, maps and charts, and images.”  Available through Facts on File.

American Women's History Online
Explore this “unique reference database containing biographies, historical and topical subject entries, speeches and other documents, maps and charts, photographs, and timeline entries that cover more than 500 years of American women's history.”  Available through Facts on File.

Ancient and Medieval History Online
Investigate ancient history in this “comprehensive database that gives a balanced, global view of the ancient world as it explores six civilizations -- Africa, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica. Spanning the period from the early Hominids 3 to 5 million years ago to flourishing cultures in 600 CE, this database offers much information about their places in history.”  Available through Facts on File.

Annals of American History
Read primary sources from American History and find information on a variety of history topics through the words of reporters, famous figures, historical speeches, diaries, and other firsthand accounts. The annals include a useful timeline, speeches in full text, historical accounts with images, and other primary sources unavailable via traditional search engines.  See Mrs. Perkins for Whippany Park’s username and password.

Business Source Elite
Obtain "full text for 1,125 scholarly business journals, including full text for nearly 500 peer-reviewed business publications. the rich collection of titles in Business Source Elite provides information dating back to 1985." Available through EBSCOHost.

Country Watch
Locate up-to-date information and news about all of the countries of the world. Here you will find extensive country information, including political, economic and daily news, as well as basic data and statistics for reports and projects. Available through Morris County Library; use your public library barcode to log on.

Custom Newspapers from Infotrac
Search the full text of The New York Times, The (Newark) Star Ledger, The Bergen Record, The Los Angeles Times and The Times (London) plus many more national and international newspapers.  Available through JerseyClicks.

E-Library
Search this comprehensive digital archive for business information, background information for term papers, current and historical events, classic books, television and radio show transcripts, maps, photographs, and major works of literature, art, and much more.  See Mrs. Perkins for Whippany Park’s username and password.

Facts on File
Discover a wealth of information on science, history, multicultural issues, geography, and career guidance topics. It is a comprehensive information resource that also includes a database of subjects such as commonly used government forms, a curriculum resource center with lesson plans and handouts, topics in science and science experiments, detailed references on American women's history, and career guidance information, among many other topics. 

Issues and Controversies
This online database "helps researchers understand the crucial issues we face today, exploring more than 800 hot topics in buisness, politics, government, education and popular culture." It is an ideal database for reserach papers and debate prep. the database features in-depth and objective articles, pro and con statements, timelines, primary sources, statistical tables, editorial cartoons, issues from headlines, and Bill of Rights in Debate. Available through Facts on File News Services database.

MAS Online
Search “nearly 230 general interest and current events magazines, including full text for more than 150. This database includes over 400 full text pamphlets and 10 nearly full text reference books." Available through EBSCOHost.

MasterFILE Premier
Search this “multidisciplinary database which provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, this database also includes nearly 450 full text references books, 84,000 biographies, 86,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,000 photos, maps and flags." Available through EBSCOHost.

Modern World History Online
Research world history in this database “designed to adhere to the school curriculum, and content is organized by the National Standards for World History. Users will find the attractive layout, logical organization, and authoritative information unsurpassed by any online reference source. Full citations accompany each entry.”  Available through Facts on File.

Newsbank
Explore these 2,500 diverse sources including local newspapers, international news agencies, periodicals, wire services, television and radio transcripts, science journals, United Nations documents, U. S. Historical documents and statistical publications. A prime feature of this database is the ability to search for articles on a topic as it was covered in major newspapers across the nation.  See Mrs. Perkins for Whippany Park’s username and password.

Newspaper Source
Examine the “selected full text for nearly 30 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers." Available through EBSCOHost.

Proquest Historical New York Times
Experience the “digitized The New York Times from the 19^th Century to the present. The historical archives has digitally reproduced every issue from cover to cover -- not just the news stories and editorials, but also the photos, graphics, and advertisements. Use the “Choose Database” option to limit to historical articles.  Then enter terms (keywords, dates, author's name, article type, etc.) to search for the full text of any New York Times article from 1851 to the present.  See Mrs. Perkins for Whippany Park’s username and password.

ProQuest Research Library
Print out articles “from over 3,600 magazines and journals on a broad range of general reference subjects including the arts, children, education, health, humanities, international topics, law, multicultural topics, the military, psychology, science, social science and women.”  Available through Morris County Library; use your public library barcode to log on. 

Regional Business News
View “comprehensive full text coverage for regional business publications. Regional Business News incorporates coverage of 75 business journals, newspapers and newswires from all metropolitan and rural areas within the United States." Available through EBSCOHost.

Student Research Center
Try out this “new, student-friendly EBSCO interface for secondary school students. The Student Research Center interface offers an easy-to-use, powerful alternative to the existing EBSCOhost interface that supports middle and high school-focused EBSCO databases.”  Here, you will search the same EBSCO database holdings, but view them through a more colorful, user-friendly screen.  Available through EBSCOHost.

TOPICsearch
”Explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 78,000 articles from more than 3,000 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals." Available through EBSCOHost.

World Atlas
View geography data “based on Facts On File's critically acclaimed Maps On File® and Geography On File™.  This comprehensive database combines more than 500 clear, reproducible, full-color maps with superb statistical information on more than 200 countries, all 50 U.S. states, the 13 Canadian provinces and territories, as well as the world's continents and major regions.” Available through Facts on File.

World Data Analyst
Compare countries' statistics from today or throughout history by using this database. Create tables and charts and export your data comparisons to Excel, Word, or PowerPoint. Country snapshots include information and country rankings of population, economy, demographics, geography and many other measures.  See Mrs. Perkins for Whippany Park’s username and password.

World News Digest
This online database provides an archival record of domestic and international news that covers all major political, social and economic events since November 1940. Users will find primary source documents, timelines, editorial cartoons and suggested research topics. Available through Facts on File News Services database.

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